1932 (painting)
Ben Nicholson
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Date:1932 -
Style:Abstract Art -
Genre:abstract -
Media:graphite, oil, board -
Location:Tate Modern, London, UK
1932 (painting)
Ben Nicholson
In 1932 Nicholson visited Paris and saw work by Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Hans Arp. He described their effect on him as ‘a new freedom ... a kind of liberation’. Incised lines dance into and along the surface of this painting. The lines are fluid, playful and largely non-descriptive (although outlines of bodies can perhaps be read into this painting). Nicholson is occupied here with conveying the painting’s status as a physical object. In discarding the need for representation, Nicholson’s aim was ‘to animate a thing, to create new life by marrying idea to a physical object’.
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